Obituary of Dorothy McCarty

Services for Dorothy Lucille 'Dotty' Britt McCarty, 86, Leverett's Chapel, will be at 4:00 pm, Sunday, September 8, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Glenn Barton and Father --officiating. Private burial will be in the Overton City Cemetery. Mrs. McCarty died Wednesday, September 4, 2013 in Overton.  She was born October 6, 1925 in Tarbord, North Carolina to the late Charlie Robert and Lure Wood Penwell. Her hearts desire was to be a nurse and she graduated from Dorothy D/X School of Nursing in Raleigh, North Carolina and moved to Leverett's Chapel in 1983 from Texas City. In the 1970's she was a avid softball player. She worked in home health for Jordan Home Health, Mt. Vernon and was a member of the VFW Post 4002 in Longview, the American Legion Post 89, Texas City, the Veterans of Foreign War, Post 2004, Longview. She was also a member of the Retired R.N.'s and Life E.M.S.  She was a member of the Calvary Way Church in Kilgore.  Besides her parents, Mrs McCarty was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Lee McCarty, and a son, Donald Earl Britt. Survivors include a son, Willie Britt, II, Las Vegas; a daughter, Donna Wood, Oyster Creek; a granddaughter, Christina Hahn; a great granddaughter, Autumn Rose Hahn, a grandson, Lee Michael Sandino; a step-grandson, US Marine Captain Christopher Wood, a sister, Ellie Bono, Miami, Florida; special friends, Linda and Randy Barton, Jo Jones, Hazel Poland, Betty Clinton, Wilma Barton, and Jerry and Judy Cox.  The family will receive friends at Cottle-Pearson on Sunday, Sept. 8 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, prior to the service.